CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

Name: A GREEK BLUE CHALCEDONY SCARABOID WITH A DOVE
Brand: CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Price: 42000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 52,920

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USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

Closed: 14 Apr 2022

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A GREEK BLUE CHALCEDONY SCARABOID WITH A DOVE

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

Price Realised USD 52,920

Closed: 14 Apr 2022

Price Realised USD 52,920

Closed: 14 Apr 2022

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¹³⁄₁₆ in. (2.1 cm.) long

Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, acquired and brought to Switzerland, late 1930s; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

Engraved on the underside is a dove in flight, with its well-detailed wings spread and the tail splayed. For the motif compare the coins of Sikyon (see no. 15 in J.A.W. Warren, “Sikyon: a Case-Study in the Adoption of Coinage by a Polis in the Fifth Century BC,” 196). As the dove was sacred to Aphrodite, its employment on the coins of Sikyon may have been inspired by that fact that the goddess had a cult center there.